Women: Social and Political Implications

The Cult of True Womanhood

Professor Catherine Lavender, The College of Staten Island of CUNY

The Cult of Domesticity and True Womanhood- Prof Lavender.doc

Brief excerpt from Barbara Welter, 1966 http://pinzler.com/ushistory/cultwo.html

Women's Activism in Antebellum America

On the Seneca Falls Convention: http://www.npg.si.edu/col/seneca/senfalls1.htm
A comment on Seneca Falls: http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/suffragewomensrights.html
From Sojourner Truth: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sojtruth-woman.html

The 1920s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapper

"Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation?" by Anne Shaw Faulkner, Ladies Home Journal, August 1921

http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/syncopate.html

"A Flapper's Appeal to Parents" by Ellen Welles Page, Outlook December 6, 1922

http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/flapperappeal.html

Rosie to June Cleaver

Truman – Remarks on Women in the Services, November 5, 1951 - http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=13986
Eisenhower – Remarks on Women in the Services, April 30, 1954 - http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=10228
ADs
"A Liberal Trade-in," ad for Ohrbach's (W) - http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/trade.html
"The Iron Curtain Look Is Here!" (Life, 1952) (W) – http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/iron-curtain.html
A Santa Fe railroad ad celebrating women in wartime railroading - http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Ben/women-work.html
Linda Allen's song, "Rosy the Riveter--Revisted" (W) - http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/rosy-riveter-song.html

The 1960s and a Feminine Mystique?

Newsweek, 1960:http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/newsweek-on-women.html
Betty Friedan, David Horowitz, critique “Friedan’s secret communist past”, 1999:
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/friedan-per-horowitz.html

Ethnicity

Immigration-Multicult Doc.doc